Asda staff call off strike action.(News)

From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) | Date: September 3, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By Gareth Deighan

Supermarket work-ers have voted against strike action.

The long-running dispute centred on pay at Asda's distribution depot at Pattinson in Washington, which supplies most of the chain's supermarkets in the North East.

Union bosses had asked for a 5% pay rise over the next year and threatened three days of strike action if their demands were not met.

However, after long negotiations, this week the 700 workers in ...

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